Lublin to Dublin Turkish Coffee Stout

Lublin To Dublin Turkish Coffee Stout is the fifth in the series of collaboration brews between O’Hara’s and Pinta. This year the brewers decided to delve deeper into the world of Stouts and bring you a Turkish Coffee Stout. Brewed using a combination of chocolate, crystal and oat malts, hopped with Polish varieties of Marynka and Lubelski, this stout is smooth, creamy and bursting with the flavour of Cremazzuro coffee beans.

ADDITIONAL TASTING NOTES

Colour/Appearance Deep shades of black with a foamy tanned head.

AromaNotes of espresso and dark chocolate with a subtle spice.

AftertasteIntense coffee and dark chocolate flavours followed by sweet caramaltand spicy cardamom with a warming aftertaste of vanilla and citrus notes.

BREWER'S NOTE

For this year’s collaboration with Pinta we wanted to create something big and bold, so we decided on a Turkish coffee stout. We wanted to get intense Turkish coffee flavour’s so we asked our friends at JJDarboven for their help and they recommend we use Cremazzuro coffee bean in order to get the best. Cardamom and orange peel were used as sweeteners and helped to bring about a smooth and velvet taste on the palette. The 7% abv gives a good warming aftertaste also.

STOUT

Big beers are always a lot of fun to brew. Stouts especially so as the intensity and sweetness of a flavoursome stout is always welcome and brings out a lot of the more subtle dark malt flavours that can be missed in dryer stouts. Add the use of Polish hops not typically associated with a stout, although a very suitable companion, and the result is a beautiful stout with even more layers of complexity.